"We've taken a hit, but we're back."

A few interesting articles:

• Breakout (and it gets more interesting near the end)

• "This Car Runs on Code" -- Discussed aircraft flight software and automotive software.

Enter klabs.org original home page

Friday, July 3, 2009: LOLA Successfully Ranging to the Moon! The LOLA laser altimeter laser was turned on today at 1pm EDT and LOLA has reported the instrument is successfully performing ranging measurements to the lunar surface! LOLA will now begin its calibration activities. Activation of the Diviner (DLRE) instrument is planned for Sunday.   Posted by Craig Tooley at 7/03/2009 03:49:00 PM

Send me your suggestions for pictures to post.

Apollo 8 Recovery: A team of U.S. Navy underwater demolition swimmers prepares the Apollo 8 command module for being hoisted aboard the carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, prime recovery vessel for the initial manned lunar orbital mission. The crew members - astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders - had already egressed the spacecraft and were aboard the recovery ship at the time of this photo.

LRO on launch pad with a Shuttle in the background.

Need a caption for this one.

NASA has stopped funding the server for klabs.org.  I have arranged for a new server and have uploaded most of the content.  I still have a bit of cleanup work to do, since the new server is not fully compatible with the old server.  Feel free to send me information about any broken links, or material or ideas that you have for klabs.org.  Rich Katz (info@klabs.org)